Australian Brandenburg Orchestra BAROQUE TARANTELLA Paul Dyer Artistic Director and harpsichord A concert by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with Ensemble L’Arpeggiata - direction Christina Pluhar Supported by the DRAC Ile-de-France Christina Pluhar theorbo Lucilla Galeazzi voice Gianluigi Trovesi clarinet Margit Übellacker psaltery Anna Dego theatrical dancer PROGRAM Around thirty deliciously entertaining songs and dances from renaissance and baroque Italy. For the full program please refer to page 4. The concert will last approximately 90 minutes. There will be NO INTERVAL. SYDNEY City Recital Hall Angel Place Friday 10, Saturday 11 Wednesday 15, Friday 17, Saturday 18 September 2010 all at 7pm Saturday 18 September 2010 at 2pm MELBOURNE Melbourne Recital Centre Sunday 12 September at 5pm, Monday 13 September at 7.30pm Cameras, tape recorders, pagers, video recorders and mobile phones must not be operated during the performance. This concert will be recorded for broadcast. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is assisted The Australian Brandenburg by the Australian Government through the Australia Orchestra is assisted by the NSW Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Government through Arts NSW. PRINCIPAL PARTNER TARANTELLA PROGRAM_PRESS.indd 1 1/09/10 7:17 PM Artistic Director's Message Tonight is a night of wonderful surprises, a night of Baroque Tarantella featuring our dear friends Ensemble L’Arpeggiata under the visionary direction of Christina Pluhar. Together we will bring to life baroque beats inspired by both the old and the new - the earthy joyous music-making of sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy with a modern twist. What you’ll find amidst the gorgeous sound of period instruments, including theorbo, psaltery, harpsichord and lirone, is a wonderful jazz clarinettist. You will also see an orchestra sharing the stage with a mesmerising theatrical dancer. You might even be asked to sing along, and if so, I urge you to join in, because this is a celebration! 2010 marks the Brandenburg’s 21st Birthday year and so I decided to invite back this groundbreaking group from Paris, who wowed audiences and critics alike in their 2007 Australian debut! And like all good parties, the ‘band’ has agreed to perform some old favourites together with some new works. With such irresistible toe-tapping rhythms, you’ll find it hard to keep still. If you like what you hear tonight, why not continue your Brandenburg experience next year and subscribe to our 2011 Sydney or Melbourne concert season? Visit www.brandenburg.com.au and discover some of the beautiful places our music will take you and the sound of Amore Italiano, Haunting Handel, Mozart Tempest, Celestial Vivaldi and more. Subscribers and friends on our mailing list will receive our new 2011 subscription brochure in the mail shortly. If you’re not on our list, drop us a line, and we’ll send you one. You might have also noticed a new Brandenburg CD in the program. It’s our new Baroque Favourites CD, voted by you, our fans, and the selection is simply stunning. If you’re looking to map out your life in beautiful music, then this collection is a must have! A new world of music awaits. Join us! Paul Dyer Artistic Director 3 TARANTELLA PROGRAM_PRESS.indd 3 1/09/10 7:18 PM Baroque Tarantella Program G.B Buonamente Intrata Piccinini/Pluhar Aria di Fiorenze Lucilla Galeazzi A vita bella Maurizio Cazzati/Pluhar Ciaccona Improvisation Follia Traditionelle pugliese Pizzicarella mia Huete/ Improvisation Tarantella Napoletana Maurizio Cazzati Passacaglia Traditionelle pugliese La Carpinese Improvisation Bergamasca G.B. Buonamente Poi che noi rimena Lucilla Galeazzi/ Improvisation Voglio una casa Santa Cruz/Improvisation Jacaras Luigi Rossi/Pluhar Sinfonia Traditionelle Tu bella Traditionelle Tarantella Calabrese Cyriacus Wylche Battaglia Andrea Falconiero Suava Melodia Girolamo Kapsberger Arpeggiata Lucilla Galeazzi Sogna, fiore mio Traditionelle Tarantella Italiana Luigi Rossi Dormite, begl’occhi Traditionelle Lu Gattu Santiago de Murcia Fandango Improvisation Turlurù Kapsberger/Improvisation Kapsberger Improvisation Ciaccona Improvisation Ninna, nanna sopra la Romanesca Gianluigi Trovesi Animali in Marcia 4 TARANTELLA PROGRAM_PRESS.indd 4 1/09/10 7:18 PM Baroque Tarantella Ensemble L’Arpeggiata Supported by the DRAC Ile-de-France direction and theorbo Christina Pluhar voice clarinet Lucilla Galeazzi Gianluigi Trovesi psaltery theatrical dancer Margit Übellacker Anna Dego Australian Brandenburg Orchestra The musicians on period instruments violins lirone Matt Bruce Laura Vaughan Guest Concertmaster Aaron Brown *Ben Dollman Percussion Julia Fredersdorff Jess Ciampa viola theorbo/guitar Marianne Yeomans *Tommie Andersson cello harpsichord I *Jamie Hey *Paul Dyer double bass organ/ harpsichord II *Kirsty McCahon Jonathan Bradley * Denotes Brandenburg core musician Harpsichord preparation by Geoffrey Pollard. 5 TARANTELLA PROGRAM_PRESS.indd 5 1/09/10 7:18 PM Paul Dyer artistic director Paul Dyer is one of Australia’s leading specialists in period performance styles. A charismatic leader, he founded the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in 1990 as a natural outcome of his experience as a performer and teacher of baroque and classical music, and has been the Orchestra’s Artistic Director since that time. Paul has devoted his performing life to the harpsichord, fortepiano and chamber organ as well as conducting the Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir. Having completed postgraduate studies in solo performance with Bob van Asperen at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague, Paul performed with many major European orchestras and undertook ensemble direction and orchestral studies with Sigiswald Kuijken and Frans Brüggen. As well as directing the Orchestra, Paul has a busy schedule appearing as a soloist, continuo player and conductor with many major ensembles, including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Orchestra, Australia Ensemble, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Opera Australia, Australian Youth Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London. Paul has performed with many prominent International soloists including Andreas Scholl, Cyndia Sieden, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Andreas Staier, Marc Destrubé, Christoph Prégardien, Hidemi Suzuki, Manfredo Kraemer, Andrew Manze, Yvonne Kenny and Emma Kirkby, Philippe Jaroussky and many others. In 1998 he made his debut in Tokyo with countertenor Derek Lee Ragin, leading an ensemble of Brandenburg Orchestra soloists, and in August 2001 Paul toured the Orchestra to Europe with guest soloist Andreas Scholl, appearing in Vienna, France, Germany and London (at the Proms). As a recitalist, he has toured Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, playing in Carnegie Hall in New York. Paul is an inspiring teacher and has been a staff member at various Conservatories throughout the world. In 1995 he received a Churchill Fellowship and has won numerous International and National awards for his CD recordings with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir, including the 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2009 ARIA Awards for Best Classical Recording. Paul is the presenter of the Inflight program “Symphony” on Qantas International flights and is a Patron of St Gabriel’s School for Hearing Impaired Children. In 2003 Paul was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for his services to Australian society and the advancement of music and in 2010 the Sydney University Alumni Medal for Professional Achievement. 6 TARANTELLA PROGRAM_PRESS.indd 6 1/09/10 7:18 PM Christina Pluhar L’Arpeggiata director and theorbo After studying guitar in her home city of Graz, Christina Founded in 2000, L’Arpeggiata is an outstanding ensemble Pluhar graduated in lute with Toyohiko Sato at the Hague directed by Christina Pluhar. Its members are some of today’s Conservatoire. She was awarded with the Diplôme Supérieur best soloists and in addition they work in collaboration with de Perfectionnement at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis some exceptional singers from the Baroque and the traditional with Hopkinson Smith. She then studied with Mara Galassi music worlds. Their aim is to revive an almost unknown at the Scuola Civica di Milano. In 1992 she won the 1st Prize repertoire and to focus their artistic work especially from the in the International Old Music Competition of Malmö with the beginning of the 17th century. ensemble La Fenice. The basis of L’Arpeggiata is instrumental improvisations, Since 1992 Christina has lived in Paris, where she has a different approach to singing centred on the development performed as a soloist and continuo player in prestigious of vocal interpretation influenced by traditional music, and the festivals with famous groups such as La Fenice, Concerto creation and staging of attractive shows. Soave, Accordone, Elyma, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ricercar, Akademia, La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Concerto Since its foundation L’Arpeggiata has had an incredible Köln, and in ensembles directed by René Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, response from the audience as well as from the critics; Alessandro di Marchi. Her repertoire includes solo and continuo they have received outstanding reviews for their albums works from the 16th to 18th centuries for Renaissance lute, and concerts. Their album La Villanella, dedicated to the Baroque guitar, archlute, theorbo and Baroque harp. music of Girolamo Kapsberger, was considered "event of the month" by Repertoire des